Books
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The Scrappy World War II Pilots Who Took Flight for a Perilous Mission
In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in…
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What We Didn’t Learn From a Space Shuttle Disaster
As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and…
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Adultery Gets Weird in Miranda July’s New Novel
An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire…
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Her Sister Is Dead but Life, and Libido, Carry On
In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.
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When Anarchists Were Public Enemy Number One
An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.
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She Taught Generations How to Wield a Wok and a Cleaver
As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than “the Julia Child…
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Flipping Off the Patriarchy, Three Chords at a Time
In her intimate memoir, “Rebel Girl,” the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl…
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A Child’s Island of Wonder, as Fascism Rises
THE WILDCAT BEHIND GLASS, by Alki Zei. Translated by Karen Emmerich. Of all the genres of the past century of…
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One Man’s Quest for ‘Photographic Justice’
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American…
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In a Poem, Just Who Is ‘the Speaker,’ Anyway?
Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so…